The 60's is where society completely changed, everyone loosened up from the nuclear paranoia of the 50's. Teenagers changed from generic mummy's boys and daddy's girls to "free spirits", hence this decade being dubbed the "Swingin' sixties". With the idea of genetically altered nuclear monsters beginning to be seen as a bit silly, Film writers gave the viewer a fear of something closer to home. The most notorious 60's horror was Alfred Hitchcock's legendary 1960 movie "Psycho". Psycho is the story of motel owner Norman Bates who hears the voice of his Mum's ghost telling him to kill people. The moral of the story was that being a "Mummy's boy" was not a good thing anymore, this film summarises the rebellious nature of the teenage population in the 60's.
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